A member of staff assists a person at the ticket machines in Waterloo Station train station in London
WALES has the highest train cancellation rates of all British nations, new statistics revealed today.
Office for Rail and Road figures analysed by BBC showed that Wales had 3.9 per cent of its railway stops cancelled between August 18 2024 and August 16 2025 — higher than England’s 3.5 per cent and Scotland’s 2 per cent.
Commenting on the figures, Plaid Cymru transport spokesperson, Peredur Owen Griffiths MS pointed to decades of underinvestment.
He said: “Despite the obvious impact the UK government’s snubbing of Welsh infrastructure has on our railway services, they continue to deny us of the £4 billion we’re owed from HS2, and won’t even start to undo the damage of underinvestment in decades gone by.
“The powers over rail infrastructure must be devolved to Wales — the UK government has shown itself incapable of investing adequately in Wales, and it’s time we were allowed to do it ourselves.”
Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales Ken Skates said:“These figures relate to train services run by all operators in and out of Wales, not just Transport for Wales.
"The fact is Transport for Wales achieved the greatest improvement in punctuality among all UK train operators between April and June 2025.
"Our £800m investment in new trains is unprecedented and shows what can be done when rail services are nationalised.
"Other rail operators in Wales and across Britain, like Avanti and GWR, will be nationalised by UK Government and I am confident this will result in improvements across the board.”
